Monterey County Agricultural Center
1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, CA
Tuesday, February 26
7:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
7:45 Registration (free)
8:00 Production of organic baby spinach using buried drip irrigation
Ali Montazar, Irrigation Advisor UCCE, Imperial and Riverside Counties
8:30 Mitigating pesticides and sediments in tail water using polyacrylamide (PAM): a new approach
Michael Cahn, Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor, Monterey County
9:00 Full season nitrogen management of vegetables
Richard Smith, Vegetable Crops and Weed Science Adivsor, Monterey County
9:30 Optimizing water management in celery using ET weather-based scheduling
Michael Cahn, Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor, Monterey County
10:00 Break
10:30 Region 5 water quality coalitions – demonstrating achievements in water quality
Parry Klassen, Executive Director, Coalition for Urban Rural Environmental Stewardship (CURES)
11:00 Evaluation of salinity effects on strawberry production
Andre Biscaro, Irrigation Water Resources Advisor, Ventura County
11:30 Water and nitrogen management of Asian vegetables/SWEEP and Healthy soils programs
Aparna Gazula, Small Farms Advisor, Santa Clara County
12:00 Grower Panel: Nitrogen Management in Practice
Saul Lopez, D'Arrigo Brothers; Mark Mason, Huntington Farms; and Sal Montes, Christiansen Giannini
12:30 Pizza Lunch
CCA & DPR continuing education credits have been requested